graupel
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As showers shift south, high pressure is expected to build in the atmosphere above, creating conditions for potential lightning and graupel with the development of stronger showers in the afternoon, the weather service said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2024
The negatively charged graupel are heavier, so they fall toward the bottom of the cloud.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 23, 2023
With temperatures in the low 50s, this is a graupel and/or hail mixture, not snow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2023
Meteorologists reported snow or graupel falling near the sign, a rare sight.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2023
In Sacramento, the state capital, the weather service said it had received reports of something that might be either hail or graupel — soft, wet snowflakes encased in supercooled water droplets.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2023
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